He was believed to be driving another stolen car with Kentucky plates.

Detectives say he abandoned that car, stole a mail carrier Jeep from a Pulaski County home and forced a 13-year-old boy there, at gunpoint, to get inside the jeep.

Police say the teen eventually escaped and Caldwell was later involved in a hit-and-run.

After hours of searching, deputies spotted the Jeep, but they say Caldwell wouldn't stop.

“Went up through a yard and tore that yard all to pieces. Come around from the station here right off that bank,” said Gary Keith.

Keith watched from a nearby intersection as authorities flew after Caldwell.

They say he drove the Jeep over a hill and into a creek where he crashed, got out of the Jeep and started running.

“He took off across this cornfield and next thing I know they were everywhere on him, and he went down and they got him,” Keith said. “I’ve never seen a chase, that was the first one I seen and it was pretty wild.”

Caldwell has been charged with fleeing and evading police, criminal mischief, kidnapping, robbery and theft.